Jumping the shark is the ultimate death knell for any television show, the surefire, single-phrase description that lets everyone know the expiration date on the milk carton has come and gone. For those few who don’t instantly recognize the phrase, it was born decades ago from Happy Days when Fonzie was on waterskis and literally […]
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Can Any Show Survive Jumping the Shark?
January 15th, 2012 
Geoffrey Geib 
Posted in CABLE, Geoff Geib, NETWORK, RANTS & REVIEWS, T.V., TELEVISION & CABLE, Uncategorized 
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Guilty Pleasures and the Films of Robert Rodriguez
January 2nd, 2012 Geoffrey Geib Film critic Pauline Kael famously once wrote/said[1], “Movies are so rarely great art, that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them.” One man’s treasure is another man’s Indiana Jones and the One With the Alien Ending, and so in honor of all the great trash […]
I See Dead People
October 31st, 2011 Geoffrey Geib I promise this is not about baseball. For those who have zero interest in sports, please bear with me for four sentences. Middle relief pitchers are undervalued. There is this absurd belief that the ninth inning is somehow more important than the sixth, when in reality the question of whether to use your best pitcher […]
That Hurt.
October 13th, 2011 Geoffrey Geib Brad Pitt is a movie star. Brad Pitt has, on at least once occasion, worn a sweater[1]. That is the extent of my personal knowledge of Brad Pitt, but it does not even begin to adequately reveal the man’s nature in any real sense, nor even within the media-created identity that is presented to us. It’s […]
MEET THE MARQUEE’OLOGISTS
October 12th, 2011 Beyond the Marquee We know what you’re thinking, “What the heck is a Marquee’ologist!?!?” Well, don’t go running to look up Mar·quee·ol·o·gist [Mahr-kee-ol-uh-jist] in Webster’s Dictionary … it’s just what our team calls themselves here at Beyond the Marquee. All of us here at this Entertainment Website are a diverse group of committed individuals full of passion, personality […]
